On Knowing Humanity: Insights from Theology for Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780367884826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 242 str.

Eloise Meneses; David Bronkema

Opis

This volume is intended as a critique of anthropology’s epistemological and ontological assumptions and a demonstration of the value added by an expanded set of parameters for the field. The book’s core argument is that whilst ethnographers have allowed their own perspectives to be positively influenced by the perspectives of their informants, u

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Engaging the Religiously Committed Other: Anthropologists and Theologians in Dialogue

Part 1: Epistemology for Ethnography

3. Mystery: To Know and Be Known in Ethnography

4. Stranger: A Biblical Teaching as an Anthropological Resource

5. Witness: A Post-critical and Biblical Epistemology for a Committed Anthropology

6. Humility: A Christian Impulse as Fruitful Motif for Anthropological Theory and Practice

7. History: Agnes C.L. Donohugh as an 'Apostle of Ethnology' between the World Wars

Part 2: Ontology for Anthropology

8. Spirituality: Insights from Practical Theology for a Transformed Applied Anthropology

9. Divine: The Multiple Ontologies of Religious Experience in Andean Culture

10. Calling: Implications of the Transcendent for Love and Purpose in Migration

11. Trinity: Theological Themes for an Interdisciplinary Theology of Culture

12. Afterword

O autorze

Eloise Meneses is professor of Anthropology and director of the MA in Theological and Cultural Anthropology, at Eastern University, USA.

David Bronkema is the director and associate professor of International Development and Templeton Chair at Eastern University, USA.